Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ In few Words, a Wise Man Counts his very Minutes: He lets no Time flip him; for Time is Life: which he makes Long, by the Good Husbandry of a Right Use and Application of it, from One Moment to Another. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ We make a Wonderful Matter of Things at a Distance, that Signify Little or Nothing at all, nearer hand. And we are as much Impos’d upon in the Prospect of our Hopes and Fears: The Dangers, and the Blessings that we either Dread, or Propose to our selves, look a great Deal Bigger afar off, then in Effect they are. And what's the Mystery of All this now, but that we judge of Things by False Images and Appearances, without Entring into the True State and Reason of them? ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ We see Thing at hand, as they really are, but at a Distance, only as they seem to be Patience and Consideration will set us Right in our Judgments and in our Measures. It is much thereabouts with the Common People too, in the Matter of Remote Grievances. They Represent, and Fancy to Themselves, Hell, Slavery and Damnation, at a Distance, in many a Case, which at hand signifies not so much as a Flea-biting. ”
